Outline of critical theory

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to critical theory:

Critical theory – the examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities. The term has two different meanings with different origins and histories: one originating in sociology and the other in literary criticism. This has led to the very literal use of 'critical theory' as an umbrella term to describe any theory founded upon critique. The term "Critical Theory" was first coined by Max Horkheimer in his 1937 essay "Traditional and Critical Theory".

Essence of critical theory

Concepts

Branches of critical theory

Actor–network theory

Commonly used terms

African-American studies

Henry Louis Gates Jr. –
Frantz Fanon –

Gender studies

Marxist theory

Frankfurt School –
- Theodor Adorno –
- Herbert Marcuse –
- Walter Benjamin –
- Jürgen Habermas –
- Max Horkheimer –
- Friedrich Pollock –
Louis Althusser –
Mikhail Bakhtin –
Étienne Balibar –
Ernst Bloch –
Antonio Gramsci –
Michael Hardt –
Fredric Jameson –
Ernesto Laclau –
Georg Lukács –
Chantal Mouffe –
Antonio Negri –
Valentin Voloshinov –
Slavoj Žižek –
Hegemony –
Posthegemony –

Commonly used terms

Postcolonialism

Chinua Achebe –
- "An Image of Africa" –
Frantz Fanon –
- "The Wretched of the Earth" –
Homi Bhabha –
- Double consciousness –

Structuralism

Post-structuralism

Commonly used terms

Deconstruction

Commonly used terms

Bricolage^[1]

Postmodern philosophy

Reconstructivism

Paulo Freire –
John Dewey –

Psychoanalytic theory

Luce Irigaray –
Teresa de Lauretis –
Jacques Lacan –
Julia Kristeva –
Slavoj Žižek –
Sigmund Freud –
- The Interpretation of Dreams –
- On Narcissism –
- Totem and Taboo –
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle –
- The Ego and the Id –
- The Future of an Illusion –
- Civilization and Its Discontents –
- Moses and Monotheism –

Commonly used terms

Schizoanalytic theory

Commonly used terms

Queer theory

Semiotics

Commonly used terms

Semiotic square^[1]

Literary theory

Commonly used terms

Theories of identity

Private sphere – certain sector of societal life in which an individual enjoys a degree of authority, unhampered by interventions from governmental or other institutions. Examples of the private sphere are family and home. The complement or opposite of public sphere.
Public sphere – area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action. It is "a discursive space in which individuals and groups congregate to discuss matters of mutual interest and, where possible, to reach a common judgment."
Creolization

Major works

Bloch, Ernst (1938–47). The Principle of Hope
Fromm, Erich (1941). The Fear of Freedom (UK)/Escape from Freedom (US)
Horkheimer, Max; Adorno, Theodor W. (1944–47). Dialectic of Enlightenment
Barthes, Roland (1957). Mythologies
Habermas, Jürgen (1962). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Marcuse, Herbert (1964). One-Dimensional Man
Adorno, Theodor W. (1966). Negative Dialectics
Derrida, Jacques (1967). Of Grammatology
Derrida, Jacques (1967). Writing and Difference
Habermas, Jürgen (1981). The Theory of Communicative Action

Major theorists

References

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External links

Critical Theory, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Theory: Death is Not the End", n+1 magazine's short history of academic critical theory. Winter 2005.
Critical Legal Thinking: A critical legal studies website which uses critical theory in an analysis of law and politics.
L. Corchia, Jürgen Habermas. A Bibliography: works and studies (1952-2010), Pisa, Edizioni Il Campano – Arnus University Books, 2010, 344 pp.
Rivera Vicencio, E. (2012). "Foucault: His influence over accounting and management research. Building of a map of Foucault's approach". International Journal of Critical Accounting. 4 (5/6): 728–756. doi:10.1504/IJCA.2012.051466.
Rivera Vicencio, E. (2014). "The firm and corporative governmentality. From the perspective of Foucault". International Journal of Economics and Accounting. 5 (4): 281–305. doi:10.1504/IJEA.2014.067421.

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